home help robots

I can't decide.

I think if it is in addition to human interaction it is good. If it is instead of, then it says something troubling about where society is going. But some interaction is better than none.

Labour saving devices are ok if they free up time to do better things, if it is just to be lazy then it doesn't help in the long run.

So I guess it is not the technology, but the way it is used.

I know I would end up becoming attached to it.

It reminds me of that TV program Humans, where human like robots were everywhere mostly looking after elderly and disabled peole in their own homes. I both would and wouldn't like it, it would be good to have a robot that did the bits of housework, gardening and stuff that I could no longer do, personal care is a maybe, but I'd be afraid of being spied on and them being used as a tool of oppression. 

I wonder how animals, especially dogs would react to them? I could see Fearn getting really freaked out and not wanting to let one near me.

I expect animals would get used to it.

I expect animals would get used to it.

There would have to be a kill button - like Hal in 2001.

I've just had another thought, given my ability to mess up anything with a silicon chip in it, would my robot go on a killing spree, or not let me out of the bath or something?

They might if introduced as puppies or kittens, but I don't think adult animals would, I don't think Fearn would. 

Would the robot be designed to defend itself? Because I could well see Fearn trying to kill it or at least rag it about a bit. Fearns not a dangerous dog, but she's protective, partly because she's been attacked a couple of times, by other dogs and humans and I've had some scary encounters too, she barely lets my Mum answer the front door!